Smoking

Today’s, labels, ads, and preachers tell us that smoking is harmful to our bodies, yet people continue to smoke. In the film, Thank You for Smoking, Nick Naylor works for the tobacco industry; his company forces him to uses his talking skills to argue how cigarettes are really not as bad as what everyone believes. At times, Naylor is ambiguous about what he does, advocating for a product that is known to be bad for us. However, he continues to prove to his son the power of supporting an argument successfully. He tells him that “the beauty of an argument is that if you argue correctly, you’re never wrong.”
Nick Naylor made many different appearances and his reasons for smoking weren’t all the same. He had a different argument for every person and every statement. Nick visited his son at school for career day and he made a point that his job is just to make enough money to support his family so he is going to do whatever it takes. He also wanted the children to know that when they are making decisions in life, make the decision whether or not to smoke and the decision should be left up to them and no one else. A young girl in the classroom raised her hand and said that her mother told her cigarettes kill people, but Nick won the argument before she was even finished talking. Nick Naylor is also supposed to research links between disease and smoking but he has never been able to find anything conclusive. On Joan Lunden's show, he protests that he doesn’t want to be a customer to die and he accuses the doctor of making money off of cancer patients.
Nick uses sex, language, violence, drugs and religion to argue his topics. Naylor says his organization needs to find a way to put the sex back in smoking. Nick and his friends use crude language to talk about a young reporter's breasts and whether she'll…...

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...NAIROBI
D.H.O. KWAMANGA, J.A. ODHIAMBO and E.I. AMUKOYE
ABSTRACT
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of smoking and investigate factors that may
influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi.
Design: Cross-sectional survey in which a self-administered questionnaire was issued to the
students.
Setting: Sampled public and private secondary schools in Nairobi.
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± 1.48. The study covered 3065(77.3%) and 2246 (70. 1%) of the public and private school
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The smoking of cigarette is glamorized through advertisements. More and more young boys and girls are attracted by this. Even the 'statutory warning' on the cigarette packets does not stop them. The young generation think that those who smoke are smart, modern and intellectual.
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